According to the following video, the “cat’s is out of the bag” in regards to a group of African-American pastors protesting President Obama’s and the NAACP’s supporting of marriage equality: As it turns out, this is not a genuine protest of anger stemming from the African-American community, but rather an astroturfed effort by the National [...]

And a bonus: Mittens brought in his own black folks to cheer him on and rub elbows with instead of the NAACP rank-and-file. Mitt Romney’s speech at the NAACP conference today keeps on giving. There was a brouhaha over this as a “Sister Souljah” moment as he was booed for 15 seconds by the crowd when [...]

Mitt Romney was probably prepared for a skeptical crowd at the NAACP conference today. Since he has little support in the black community as a candidate, this appearance was for show — to get the media to cover this as brave, “entering the lion’s den,” whatever. He focused on the economy since things like social [...]

My two cents…see ya, don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Pastor.  Rev. Keith Ratliff, pastor of Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, Iowa and who serves as president of the Iowa-Nebraska conference of the NAACP made it clear that he doesn’t understand church-state separation — like most religious opponents [...]

The race-baiting, divisive people behind the National Organization for Marriage and the Family Research Council take note. The NAACP is not having your wedge strategy. Today the national NAACP held a press conference; here are the remarks. Remarks by Roslyn M. Brock, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors May 21, 2012 As you now [...]

Vote for Marriage NC, you have cultivated all of the recent sick, violent, racist, homophobic crap and disinformation we’ve seen related to support of Amendment One in the last few days, as the vote approaches and anti-gay forces are so unhinged that they forgot to take off their KKK holds. When it gets so bad [...]

NAACP National President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous was in Durham, NC on Saturday, after a trip to Baltimore last week to address the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Creating Change, the 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality. One of the statements he made during his speech resonated with me: “Unfortunately, the national media tends to exaggerate [...]

A vote on the same sex marriage amendment has nothing to do with your personal and religious opinion on same sex marriage but everything to do with whether or not you believe discrimination should be codified and legalized constitutionally. We should never seek to codify discrimination into the very heart and framework of our Constitution.” [...]

A welcome reading of the harm that this amendment will do to our state and why one should not conflate church and state matters. Whether You Agree or Disagree With Same Sex Marriage Because of Personal, Religious, or Moral Beliefs, You Should Not Support a Constitutional Amendment Against It. OPEN LETTER TO ALL NORTH CAROLINIANS [...]